I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
CASEY STENGELGood pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What’s funny about that?
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You can’t go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you’re older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
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The trick is growing up without growing old.
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I broke in with four hits, and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. I
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I’ve tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.
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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It’s staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
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I don’t know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
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Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before.
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I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I’ve been thrown out of so many.
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